Are you looking for a good feel good movie on Amazon Prime? We’ve created a list of some of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime.
Nothing beats having an excellent feel-good movie to cheer you up, and you know the kind I’m referring to, those films that’ll have you laughing and get you feeling younger by several years.
Amazon has a great selection of movies, and we’ve helped you narrow your search. Here are 12 of our best feel good movies on Amazon Prime.
1. Emma (2020)
- Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Miranda Hart, Bill Nighy, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Amber Anderson, Rupert Graves, Gemma Whelan.
Emma is first on our list of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime. Emma is a beautiful young lady living in wealth with her Father.
She finds and befriends a younger girl, Harriet, of unknown parentage. Along the line, Emma discovers Harriet has the hots for a widowed farmer.
She believes it’s a terrible pairing and subtly sabotages it, pushing Harriet in the direction of a Mr. Elton, whom she believes is a better match.
Although, it turns out Mr. Elton has eyes for Emma. Emma seems to be disinterested in love or marriage until she has her sights on someone, Frank, but He pays her no mind but is interested in the angelic Jane Fairfax.
It’s just a funny circle of weird love triangles, sloppy match-making attempts, and a full-on display of selfishness portrayed in a light-hearted fashion. Will any of them genuinely find the love they desire or keep going around in circles?
2. The F Word (2013)
- Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Megan Park, McKenzie Davies,
The F Word is a romantic comedy, and one of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime. It was released as “What If?” in some countries due to issues surrounding the implied meaning of the “F” word.
It’s been over a year since Wallace split off from his ex-girlfriend and dropped out of medical school when he discovered she was cheating with his tutor, but he is still hiding out with his sister and nephew.
He makes a new friend, Chantry, after attending his best friend, Allan’s party. Chantry has a boyfriend, and they’ve been dating for a couple of years, so He knows to keep it cute, even though they’re compatible.
But Allan and his wife, whom he met at the party, keep plotting to get them together. Will this succeed? Or, for once, we’ll have a story where the best friends remain best friends for life.
3. The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
- Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, Joanna Lumley, Jon Bernthal.
The Wolf of Wall Street should make it to any list of movies to get you in the right mood because there are so many funny and cringe-worthy scenes that’ll keep you adequately entertained, making it a perfect addition to our list of the best feel-good movies on Amazon Prime.
Jordan Joins the world of stockbrokers, but shortly after, he finds himself out of work after the stock market takes one of its most significant dips in history.
This doesn’t faze him, though, because soon, he finds a partner and starts up his own brokerage company. Jordan has an exciting pitching style and has trained his friends in the art.
Together they con many unsuspecting investors to buy stocks worth less than their investments. This scheme earns them a lot of money they spend on wild parties, women, and drugs.
Do you think he’ll successfully get away with these schemes?. This movie reminds me of how chaotic and yet still entertaining pound the alarm was.
4. Love and Friendship (2016)
- Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Morfydd Clark, Jemma Redgrave, Tom Bennett, James Fleet, Justin Edwards, Jenn Murray, Stephen Fry, Chloe Sevigny.
Love and Friendship is a RomCom that tells the story of Lady Susan and Frederica. After her husband’s death, She has to seek shelter with her in-laws after discovering her affair with a married man.
This drives her to seek suitable wealthy companions for her and Frederica. Lady Susan is so bent on securing a rich husband for Frederica that she approves of marrying a nitwit, Sir James Martin.
While She has her sights set on Reginald, watching her as she glides around with so much pride, dry humor, and airs, all the while being dead broke, and seeing Sir James’s baffling display of sheer foolishness and all the wittiness displayed by some of the other characters as the movie progresses makes this a great addition to our list of the best feel-good movies on Amazon Prime.
5. The Big Sick (2017)
- Starring: Kumail Nanijani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, Bo Burnham, Aidy Bryant, Vella Lovell, Kurt Braunohler, Jeremy Shamos.
The Big Sick is a 2017 RomCom, one of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime, and was inspired by a real-life romance between the scriptwriters Kumail Nanijani and Emily Gordon.
Kumail is a struggling stand-up comedian and an Uber driver of a Muslim background living in Chicago. He meets Emily at a show, and they get into a relationship, although it started as a one-night stand.
Kumail’s parents are hell-bent on pairing him up with a young Pakistani woman, but he doesn’t tow that line. He has even gone as far as dissociating from his religion.
However, in trying to get their approval, he still keeps his relationship with Emily hidden and loses her. Oh! He also gets disowned at some point.
After he proves his commitment to caring for Emily’s affairs at a point where she is gravely ill, we’re left with the question of what will become of their previously shattered relationship.
6. Paddington (2014)
- Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Nicole Kidman, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw, Madeline Harris, Samuel Joslin, Imelda Staunton.
Paddington starts when a geographer discovers a species of bears that hadn’t been found yet and leaves them his hat and an open invitation to London.
Years later, the bears run into trouble that ends in the death of one of the two bears the geographer met all those years ago. Fueled by this mishap, the surviving bear goes to London in search of the explorer.
He winds up with the Brown family, and they call him Paddington after the station where they found him. Once he gets there, he immediately launches his search for the anonymous geographer, hoping he’ll find a home with him. He makes many unpleasant discoveries and has a hunter on his ass, hoping to kill and stuff him up.
7. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Starring: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows, Kristen Wiig, Raymond J. Barry, Margo Martindale, Angela Correa, Chris Parnell, Matt Besser, David “Honeyboy” Edwards.
Walk in the wild is said to be a parody of biopics like Walk in Line and Ray and seems like an excellent addition to our list of the best feel-good movies on Amazon Prime.
It may not make you laugh until you’re rolling on the floor, but it’ll lift your spirits. You’ll be following Dewey Cox on his road to superstardom due to his natural excellence at music, which is believed to be due to a tragic event that occurred during his childhood.
Dewey’s rise to fame comes with the showbiz blueprint of messy divorces, cheating, drugs, multiple marriages like it’s needed for platinum plaques, and many children scattered as far as the seeds could go.
However, he finds his footing at some point and begins to do things right. There’s a lot of music and clown-ish to enjoy.
8. I Want You Back (2020)
- Starring: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Scott Eastwood, Manny Jacinto, Clark Backo, Gina Rodriguez, Isabel May, Pete Davidson, Jami Gertz, Luke David.
There seems to be something about RomCom because they keep making it to our list of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime, and I want you back is no exception.
Peter and Emma are two different people trying to get over their exes after they’ve been brutally dumped. And like clockwork, they end up meeting each other, and they form a friendship to help get over their breakups, Cliche, right?.
Soon there’s a new plan involving sabotaging their ex’s new relationships to score another chase with them. It goes smoothly on one end, and Peter gets back together with his ex while Emma is left with sloppy remains.
Is this a win-win situation for both of them, or will they discover that maybe there should be a PeteEmma ship like all the other movies before them?
9. 3 Idiots (2009)
- Starring: Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Omi Vaidya, Farida Dadi, Parikshit Sahni, Ahmadeep Jha, Mona Singh.
3 Idiots is a classic and one of the best feel good movies on Amazon Prime. Raju Rastogi and Farhan Qureshi are searching for their friend from college, Rancho.
This leads to a recollection of their various escapades at different times for the duration of their friendship. Especially during their time in college with the dreaded Virus, the Dean of the College of Engineering at Delhi’s Imperial College (ICE) seemed to have a personal vendetta against the three friends.
They got wind that Rancho had resurfaced from Chatur, a rival from college, when he called to remind them of his bet with Rancho on who’d be more successful.
When they go to the said location, they discover it’s not Rancho that lives there but the family that his family worked for at some point. Will the Real Rancho please stand up? Or have they already lost him for good?.
10. The Farewell (2019)
- Starring: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shu-zhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo, Chen Han, Aoi Mizuhara, Zhang Jing, Li Xiang.
Billi is Chinese-American living in New York. She aspires to be a writer but has obstacles in her way in the form of rejection.
Billi’s favorite grandmother has been diagnosed with a terminal illness and has just a couple of months to live. But, the family has an odd practice of keeping people’s terminal conditions away until they probably can no longer hide the state.
The whole family visits China to attend a relative’s wedding, giving them an excuse to see Grandma, Nai Nai, one last time before she does.
The family is wary of Billi, scared that she might disclose their secret, so her parents ask her to stay in New York. Of course, she flaunts their orders and goes to China for the wedding.
Will she see the big picture and understand the need to keep the secret from Nai Nai, or will she be too guilt-ridden to play along?
11. Lady Bird (2017)
- Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Lois Smith.
Christine MacPherson changes her name to Lady Bird as she envisions herself in a prestigious college in the city while she’s still a senior in high school.
Her desire to get out of her Catholic high school and her home in California clouds her judgment because she seems to forget her family is struggling, which her mother drums in her ear as often as possible.
Lady Bird and her best friend are part of their school theater program, and she meets her first boyfriend there soon after; her relationship with her best friend becomes strained when she starts hanging with the “cooler” kids. She gets to learn new things about life due to her decisions, both good and bad.
12. Chef (2014)
- Starring: Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Amy Sedaris, Emjay Anthony, Robert Downey Jr.
Carl is the head chef at a Californian restaurant, Gauloise. He is bursting with Innovative ideas for his meals, but his boss insists that he stick to the familiar classics, which results in an occasional clash.
However, this blows up after he receives a bad review from a well-known blogger, Ramsey Michel, ultimately leading to him losing his job.
Subsequently, Carl can start up something with the help of his ex-wife, Inez, after she convinces her ex-husband to give Carl his old truck.
Carl revamps the truck and moves across cities selling Cuban delicacies with the help of Inez ( whom he remarries), his son (Percy), and his friend (Martin).
